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Forums - Nintendo - Wii U "Price Cut" Will Have Little Effect! Also, Will You Buy One Now!? <(o_O<)

 

After the price cut, will you buy Wii U?

Heck yeah!!! 197 60.62%
 
Naw mawn... 128 39.38%
 
Total:325
teigaga on 10 September 2013

I want a system but won't get one till the delux model is $250. Basic model should never have existed.



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Nem on 10 September 2013
zorg1000 said:
Nem said:
The price sounds good. But i feel like it will require Mario 3D to really take off and thats only coming out in December. Its too bad they couldnt have that and Mario Kart come out in november. Still, i think it will do enough to compete with the new consoles after the release.


Actually 3D World got bumped up to November 22 and DKC pushed back to December 6


Thats good for them. And i had forgotten about DK. That helps too.



A203D on 10 September 2013

Well I'm planning to get a Wii U over the PS4 and X1 at this point... Is this price cut confirmed or are we only speculating for the moment?

Theres no contest at this point; the PS4 will be relevant for another 6 years (min) I want a Wii U for at least a year or 2 to play all the great games they have before the PS4 hits its stride.



Roma on 10 September 2013

Already got one should have been an option

well Zelda will be out soon so that will help and there are a bunch of great games out already. get Rayman as it's awesome and I have only played a couple of levels of it.



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Screamapillar on 10 September 2013
Einsam_Delphin said:
mii-gamer said:
it was the value difference between the basic and premium that stopped consumer buying the basic over the premium. With the premium now $300 packed in with a game and 32gb - it is a better proposition. Anyway price cut won't mean shit without games - so the holiday season lineup and Mario kart 8 is important


Yeah that's true. Wii U could be $100 right now and it would still only sell meh to average at best. I still think this drop wouldn't do much regardless of when it happened though.


Software sells hardware.  The price cut will merely help spur the momentum once Zelda rolls out, it's just that little extra nudge people need who've been sitting on the fence waiting for the right time to buy.  That time will be this holiday.



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Cheebee on 10 September 2013
mii-gamer said:
it was the value difference between the basic and premium that stopped consumer buying the basic over the premium. With the premium now $300 packed in with a game and 32gb - it is a better proposition. Anyway price cut won't mean shit without games - so the holiday season lineup and Mario kart 8 is important

This, also coupled with the fact that Wii U is now 100 Dollars/Euros cheaper than its nearest next-gen rival, PS4, and 200 cheaper than X1.

Also, it's not 300 but 299. Which is a psychological thing, making it seem cheaper.



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Cheebee on 10 September 2013
CarcharodonKraz said:
if they would have dropped the price of the basic down to 250$ with i would have definitely bought it instead of waiting for a price drop like i have been. I don't require alot of hard drive space and if i did i'd buy it when i needed it. 300 dollars for a system with a quality game is a fair price, unfortunately i already have windwaker. If it were mario 3d land, or sonic, and MAAAAAYBE even new super mario bros, i'd probably have it pre-ordered already.

There's also a Lego City bundle coming for the same reduced price, in addition to the Wind Waker bundle and the regular Nintendo Land one.

But that may just me Europe, now that I think about it...

* Sorry for the double post! >_<'



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Soundwave on 10 September 2013
zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:

I'm kinda tired of the "it doesn't have games" stuff.

It's now getting a price cut and has gotten New Super Luigi U, Rayman Legends, Pikmin 3, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Wonderful 101, and Zelda: Wind Waker HD (bundled no less) are just released or in the process of releasing in the next few days.

"The drought" thing isn't an excuse anymore IMO. There is plenty to play now when you add in Nintendo Land, NSMBU, Black Ops 2, LEGO City, Monster Hunter Tri G, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Assassin's Creed 3, Game & Wario, Zombi U, and Sonic All-Star Racing Transformed.

There's isn't a lack of content for anyone buying a Wii U from here on out, unless you can play like 10 games in one month's time before Sonic Lost Worlds and Batman: Arkham Origins comes out and then you have Watch Dogs, CoD Ghosts, and Mario 3D World in November.

The system needs to start showing real improvement now.

The only problem with ur lists are that a sizeable chunk of them are on other consoles with much larger install bases. Rayman, Splinter Cell, Assassins Creed, Call of Duty, Sonic Racing are on PS360 which have sold over 150m so it only makes sense that those games dont push hardware. Monster Hunter is a 3 year old port thats also on 3DS, which has 10x the install base. Those are all great games to own if u already have a Wii U but there not going to make people go out a buy a Wii U if u already have a PS3/360/3DS.

U need to stop being so literal, of course people dont mean it has 0 games, they mean it lacks software that will make u go out a buy a new $300+ console. For the first 8 months the only titles that could possibly fit that title for most were Nintendo Land & NSMBU. Pikmin, Lego City, Game & Wario are nice little support titles that can push hardware for a couple weeks but arent from huge selling mainstream series. This holiday has 3D Mario, DKC which are known to be strong system selling franchises and Wii Party/Fit which will show us how popular the Wii brand games still are. On top of that are a bunch of support titles, price cut and new bundles.

Im a diehard Nintendo fan but outside of Pikmin, there isnt any must have games for me personally until Oct/Nov so it only makes sense to wait for black friday sales. I have a feeling alot of people feel the same way and we will see sales improve greatly over the holidays. 

 


I still think it's a BS excuse. Nintendo designed the Wii U to get PS3/360 ports as a big part of the strategy behind the console. Call of Duty? Check that box, right Reggie? There aren't going to be many exclusives for the Wii U from third parties (or any console), that's simply the reality of the situation.

The PS4/XB1 have plenty of 360/PS3 multi-plats too and they are a major part of the lineup. If a game is releasing day and date on the Wii U with other console versions, it's a perfectly good game. I'm not including old ports like Mass Effect 3 or Need for Speed, but there's no reason Wii U owners should shun Splinter Cell: Blacklist or Rayman simply because they are on other consoles, they even use the gamepad better than most Nintendo games.

The system has games now. Plenty of them considering it's a 9 month old console, I'd argue it's library through its first September is better than the Wii in overall quality (far more games with a Metacritic of around 80 or better) and that so called drought is most definitely over. There are even really a fair number of games that show off the gamepad now too -- Nintendo Land, Zombi U, Game & Wario, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Wonderful 101, Rayman Legends, all make fairly good use of it, if this is an idea that Nintendo's hung their hat on, then people should be responding to it by now. Mario Kart/Mario 3D World barely use the controller.

The best third party game the Wii had at this point was Resident Evil 4 which was a port of a 2 year old game that had already been on two other systems.

If the logic behind the console is that people will buy it strictly for a handful of old Nintendo IP, then you might as well just call it a GameCube and be done with it.



dharh on 10 September 2013

When it reaches the $150-$200 price point ill actually consider it. But it also needs more RPGs. Getting a couple SQENIX RPG games would be a good start.



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Metallicube on 10 September 2013

I still need the Wii U at $250 before I think of taking the plunge. Whether I will wait for the premium to hit that price, find a used model for that price, or just buy the basic at $250 assuming that model drops following the recent price drop.. I'm not sure. But I know I won't spend any more than $250 on it. I bought the original Wii at $250, and that console excited me FAR more than this.

Furthermore, there are still only a total of 3 games I want for the console that are currently released: NSMB U, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, and Pikmin 3. Not enough to buy a console for. However, once we get DKC Tropical Freeze, Mario Kart, 3D Mario World, and Smash Brothers in addition to the 3 I want.. THEN we're talking about a much stronger lineup and it will be much easier for me to make that decision to purchase at that point.